cheers!

I think Cho Seung Hui was a sweet guy at heart who was sadly misunderstood. And to anyone who proceeds to launch a violent tirade at me, please read my entire post first. I will proceed to state the facts, and then follow up with my opinions on the matter.

Cho Seung Hui was a student whose parents had immigrated to US from South Korea. He had a severe form of SAD called selective mutism, which impaired his speech patterns. He was known as the guy who never talked. The one time he spoke in class, his classmates made fun of him. And later on, after class was over, they pushed him down the stairs.

Opinion: Really now, before you get all judgmental on me, the classmates seriously did NOT have to do that. It was not necessary at all. If it is, give me a good reason why. And so what if he talked funny? I suppose we all have to talk the same in order to be “mentally sane.”

His family made fun of him, and so did the teachers and kids at school. He had been repeatedly called crazy and was sent to various psychiatrists. In fact, his English professor even threatened the dean that she will resign if Cho was not removed from her class. Her reasoning behind this statement was that Cho did not take off his sunglasses in class, he did not sign his name during introductions, and he refused to talk and participate in class. He also supposedly wrote “disturbing poems.”

Opinion: So I guess she wanted him to conform and he did not. But she was WAY too extreme. Just let it go, stop trying to control him so much. Besides I read some of his poems. Granted he had a unique perspective on things, but what gives you the right to judge them because they are different from your thoughts? Focus on controlling your own soul. And honestly, as much as it’s fun to be labelled crazy & weird, deep down it still hurts. Not that you ‘normal’ [if such people exist] ones understand because ONLY your way is right.

He liked this girl but due to his extreme shyness, did not talk to her. Instead, he sent her Shakespeare quotes via email. She called the police to report him.

Opinion: I suppose he’s “creepy and stalker-ish” simply because he’s shy..yeah right. That’s got no correlation whatsoever. I do see where she is coming from since she didn’t even know who he was, but she didn’t have to report him to the police. I mean..he just sent her Shakespeare quotes. And if she was THAT afraid, couldn’t she just have met him in a public place? If he refused to do that, then she didn’t have to meet him. It’s THAT simple.

The outcome of all his actions was to go on a killing spree. Why? According to Cho, it is to inspire “generations of the weak and the defenceless people”.

Opinion: I do not agree with his methods, and he had no right to take people’s lives. Why? Because a life is the individual property of a person and NO ONE has any right to mess with it. But I can’t proceed to treat him inferiorly for that JUST BECAUSE he did that, and I am certainly not self-righteous. If I say that “he deserves to burn in hell” then I am no better. I have no right to be judgmental towards him and even though his morals do not agree with my morals, that is absolutely no valid basis for being judgmental and thinking of myself as superior to him. He may have been self-righteous and whatever, but I’m not him and I don’t need to reciprocate the same way. I’m neither superior nor inferior to him. And neither are you. If you are, prove it.

Conclusion: I think Cho was a sweet guy at heart. Misunderstood and oppressed, but a guy I would have certainly liked to be friends with, if I’d ever met him. ALL he really wanted was love. He wanted someone to accept him for who he was without criticizing him. Poor guy. He did not understand that nearly everyone is cruel and judgmental towards you UNLESS you are similar to them.

Cho, I know you’re dead now or somewhere in prison. But I want you to know that someone somewhere cares for you. I don’t care if you hate me or not. I accept you for who you are and stay strong. Your story has too many things that I can relate to. You’re not alone.

Learn from it…

P.S: To those who think that this heroism shouldn´t appear in google engines when searching for Virginia Tech, you are just …. You should be proud of it. This guy sponsored the school without asking for money!

That is an absolute disgrace!

a peaceful way to solve this s*?
NO, I tried SO SO SO many times to tell teachers principles and even the cop.
when i was a in elementry school we had to ride the same bus as the highschoolers and two highschoolers forced me to kiss and lick the bottom of their shoe and the school did NOTHING.
they said they would but didn’t!

I also got pushed around a lot in middle and highschool
and they did NOTHING, a few times when a teacher saw this she just told them to stop but did NOT punish them, so they continued when there was no help.
I wanted to kill them all, and After i heard about columbine during that year 10th grade Eric and Dylan became my heroes.
I wanted to do just what they did but did not have the means to do so.
the only thing that happen was i got into a fight. 12th grade
I just had to finish out the rest of the school year in alternative school.
The f* b* got to go back when he came out the hospital.
and i almost got charges pressed on me.

The rest of you who think his pictures should be taken off are f* fools.
Good that will never happen, too many people like me will just repost them.

YOU people should NOT judge HIM, but the ONES who pushed him to do this.
you blame HIM but that does noting to stop future killings from happening.
you f* should focus on bullies in school!